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Die Hard Screenplay Analysis Die Hard Screenplay Analysis DIE HARD (1988) wri$en by Jeb Stuart and Steven E de Souza based on the novel Nothing Last Forever by Roderick Thorpe directed by John McTiernan running Ame: 128 minutes BASIC SCREENPLAY ANALYSIS PROTAGONIST: John McClane, 40’s, NYC detecAve. CHARACTERIZATION/MAIN MISBEHAVIOR: Selfish; unable to compromise EXTERNAL GOAL: To save Holly and the Nakatomi hostages from Hans Gruber INTERNAL GOAL: To be selfish / To support his wife MAIN DRAMATIC CONFLICT: Hans Gruber THEME: Don’t judge a book by its cover. CENTRAL DRAMATIC QUESTION: Will McClane learn to support his wife’s ambiAons and save her from Hans Gruber? ENDING: McClane risks his life and saves Holly from Hans. ARC: McClane goes from a man with a marriage paralyzed by his selfishness, to a man who realizes marriage is about compromise, and in the end, risks his life to save his wife. STORY ENGINES ACT I McClane arrives at the Nakatomi Christmas party. Moments later, the party is taken hostage by Hans Gruber. AYer witnessing the murder of Holly’s boss, McClane escapes to an upper level and pulls the building’s fire alarm to alert the authoriAes. ACT II-A AYer Hans calls off the fire alarm, McClane fights and kills one of his men, taking a walkie-talkie to alert the authoriAes again. McClane is forced to throw a dead bad guy out a window and shoot up a cop car to fully engage the LAPD. ACT II-B Now with LAPD on the scene, McClane uses the C4 and detonators (stolen from a dead bad guy) and takes out Hans’s men killing ill-prepared SWAT teams. Impersonang a hostage, Hans stumbles upon McClane and manages to get his detonators back aer an intense gun fight. ACT III Discovering Hans plan to blow the roof, McClane saves the hostages, but finds his wife has been taken hostage by Hans. McClane goes up against the odds, and ulAmately, kills Hans and saves his wife. ScreenplayHowTo.com Page 1 Die Hard Screenplay Analysis FULL SCREENPLAY ANALYSIS ACT I 1 - As his plane lands at LAX, JOHN MCCLANE’s hands are tense on the airplane arm rests. NO SHOES SETUP: A passenger tells McClane to take off his shoes to lessen anxiety. FEAR OF HEIGHTS SETUP: McClane’s anxious about the plane landing. 2 - Passenger noHces a gun on McClane. McClane set him at ease and tells him he's a cop. 3 - Nakatomi Christmas Party. ELLIS LOWE hits on HOLLY GENNARO. 5 - Holly’s on a call with her kids. It’s revealed McClane is visiHng for the Christmas holiday. 6 - Holly slams down a family picture on her desk: she has contempt for her husband. 7 - ARGYLE, the limo driver, discovers McClane’s a working class guy: his first Hme in a limo and he sits up front. McClane reveals he's been separated from his wife for six months. ARGYLE So, you divorced? MCCLANE She had a good job, it turned into a great career. ARGYLE So, why didn't you come? MCCLANE 'Cause I'm a New York cop. I got six months backlog of New York scumbags I'm still trying to put behind bars. I can’t just pick up and go that easy. ARGYLE In other words, you thought she wasn’t gonna make it out here and she'd come crawling on back to you, so why bother to pack, right? MCCLANE Like I said, you're fast, Argyle. 9 - Argyle and McClane hit it off. Argyle will be waiHng in the parking garage if things don't go well with his wife. ScreenplayHowTo.com Page 2 Die Hard Screenplay Analysis 10 - INCITING INCIDENT (internal): McClane discovers Holly is not using his last name. 11 - INCITING INCIDENT (external): McClane finds his way into the Nakatomi Christmas party. 13 - JOSEPH TAKAGI, Holly's boss and president of The Nakatomi Corporaon, introduces himself to McClane. Takagi takes him to Holly's office, where they find Ellis snorHng cocaine. 14 - Holly walks into her office. Awkward moment, but she hugs McClane. Ellis, insulHng McClane’s social status, insists Holly show him “the watch.” GOLD ROLEX SETUP: ELLIS Show him the watch. HOLLY Later. ELLIS Well, go on. Show him. What, are you embarrassed? It’s just a small token of appreciation for all her hard work. It’s a Rolex. MCCLANE I’m sure I’ll see it later. 16 - GENNARO vs McCLANE SETUP: Holly takes McClane into Ellis’s private office. She asks him to stay at her house for the kids, but McClane argues over her use of Gennaro as a last name. Holly needs the name, as Nakatomi is a Japanese company. • McClane’s more focused on his needs, not Holly’s desire to have career. 17 - Their argument’s interrupted -- Holly must give a speech to the employees. SHll angry, McClane refuses to support his wife and stays in the private office. 18 - Two men, KARL and THEO, enter the lobby of Nakatomi and kill two security guards. 19 - A truck arrives in the parking garage and more men appear. HANS GRUBER leads the pack. 20 - The bad guys go to work. Disguised as security, they shut down Nakatomi plaza access from the outside, not to menHon, prevent anyone in the building from leaving. 22 - McClane follows the advice from the plane passenger and takes off his shoes. He calls Argyle, but the call is cut short -- the bad guys have cut the phone lines. ScreenplayHowTo.com Page 3 Die Hard Screenplay Analysis 24 - STRONG MOVEMENT FORWARD: McClane hears gun shots and immediately grabs his gun: the bad guys have invaded the party with force. He spots an exit… 25 - The bad guys sweep the offices, but McClane escaped to temporary safety upstairs. 27 - Hans Gruber addresses the party, criHcizing The Nakatomi Corporaon. He finds Takagi and takes him to elevator... 28 - McClane noHces the bad guys have brought heavy weaponry -- a rocket launcher. 29 - Hans takes Takagi to the upper level offices. NoHcing models of new Nakatomi developments... HANS And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer. 30 - Hans demands the vault code key from Takagi, as it contains $640 million in bearer bonds. 32 - TURN / PLOT POINT#1: McClane, gun drawn, spies on Hans and Takagi. Takagi insists he doesn't know the code and Hans kills him without hesitaon. McClane sees Takagi's brains splaered across the glass and darts out of the office. • It’s not kidnapping or extorHon -- it’s life and death. 34 - The bud guys wire the roof with explosives. 35 - DECISION: A few floors above, McClane pulls the fire alarm. The bad guys now know what floor he's on. ScreenplayHowTo.com Page 4 Die Hard Screenplay Analysis ACT II-A 36 - The bad guys call 911, report a false alarm and McClane sees the inbound fire trucks turn around. 37 - TONY sweeps the floor McClane's on. McClane gets the drop on him, but Tony knocks the gun from his hands. 38 - FIRST TRIAL / FIRST CASUALTY: Tony and McClane fight. They wrestle down a flight of stairs and Tony breaks his neck. 39 - McClane now has a walkie-talkie and machine gun, but unfortunately, no shoes that fit. 41 - McClane sends Tony’s body down the elevator with a Santa hat and note wriden on his chest: "Now I have a machine gun. Ho, Ho, Ho." Both the bad guys and the enHre party see the body. 42 - McClane eavesdrops from above the elevator. He has a rough count of their numbers, a few of their names and that they are German. 44 - Tony happened to be Karl’s brother and now Karl wants blood. Hans calms him down and insists he focus on the job, but there’s a rage inside. • Karl will stop at nothing to kill McClane. 44 - Holly and Ellis observe Hans and Karl and know McClane is responsible. Ellis is upset with McClane for endangering their lives. Holly defends her husband: "he's doing his job." 45 - McClane makes an emergency call from the roof with the walkie talkie. Hans and Karl overhear it and immediately know his locaon... 46 - While communicang the police dispatch -- who believe his story is a prank -- McClane takes fire from Karl and crew. Dispatch overhears the commoHon, not believing it's gunfire, and send a police officer to Nakatomi. 46 - Buying twinkles, OFFICER AL POWELL gets the call for Nakatomi. ScreenplayHowTo.com Page 5 Die Hard Screenplay Analysis 46-48 - COMBAT: Gun bale between Karl and McClane. McClane manages to out maneuver them, but in the process, traps himself inside an unused elevator sha. 52 - Dangling in the elevator sha, McClane uses the machine gun and strap as a rope and anchor, aempHng to reach an air duct along an adjacent wall. He slips and rockets a few floors down, barely managing to make it inside another duct. Hearing the commoHon, Karl sees the light from McClane’s cigarede lighter and knows the floor he’s on. 53 - Searching, Karl sprays bullets into the air duct McClane's in, barely missing him. Just as he's about to stumble on McClane, Karl is summoned away by Hans. 55 - Officer Powell enters Nakatomi and the impostor security guard plays it off, claiming they've been having problems with false alarms all night. 57 - McClane spots Powell's car. While aempHng to break a window to alert Powell, McClane is fired upon and takes out two bad guys.
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